Orit Halpern
Orit Halpern is a professor and chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische Universität Dresden. She completed her PhD at Harvard University and her work bridges the histories of science, computing and cybernetics with design. She is the director of the Speculative Life Research Cluster. Her book Beautiful Date: A History of Vision and Reason (2015) investigates histories of big data, design and governmentality.
As of May 2022
Events

Unearthing the Present
Clashing Presents: Memory and Oblivion in Times of Extinction
With Orit Halpern, Stephen Himson, Sophia Roosth, Mark Williams and Matthew C. Wilson
Presentations & Discussions
May 21, 2022

Unearthing the Present
What if the Dam was removed?
With Anthony D. Barnosky, Lesley Green, Orit Halpern, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Brian Holmes, Michelle Murphy, Allison Stegner, Karolina Sobecka, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Stephanie Wakefield, Mi You
May 21, 2022
The Shape of a Practice
Between Spaces, between Lines
With Stéphane Grumbach & Olivier Hamant, Orit Halpern, Johannes Bruder, Karolina Sobecka, Sandi Hilal, Ela Spalding
Presentations
Oct 29, 2020
Alle Veranstaltungen
Alle Veranstaltungen
The Shape of a Practice
The Current
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
Installation
Oct 26, 2020–Feb 28, 2021

1948 Unbound
Chance
visual perfomative experiment
Dec 2, 2017
projekt bauhaus. Preliminary Course: From Bauhaus to Silicon Valley
With Morehshin Allahyari, Shaina Anand, Armen Avanessian, Brave New Alps, Reinier de Graaf, Orit Halpern, Denisa Kera, Claudia Mareis, Jussi Parikka, Paloma Strelitz (Assemble), Fred Turner and many more.
Presentations and talks
Dec 2, 2017

1948 Unbound
Switches
Discursive installation
Nov 30, 2017
Nervous Systems
The ‚Smart‘ Mandate: A Speculative History
With Orit Halpern
Talk
Apr 17, 2016
100 Years of Now. The Opening
Speaking from the Laboratory
With Jimena Canales, Orit Halpern, Mark B. N. Hansen, S Løchlann Jain, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, and Henning Schmidgen
Dialogues in Three Parallel Threads
Sep 30, 2015